I read this earlier and the old “facts don’t matter” meme comes to mind. All in for the sake of the agenda regardless of facts. Kinda like AGW “facts” which the new sec state will be pushing once confirmed by the senate. And why wouldn’t he be? (Haughtiness aside.) Come on John. New position for you so why the long face?
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I read an article that was a couple of years old on NPR, of all places, about murders in Chicago. Even within Chicago, all the murders took place in an area that made up 8% of the city.
Looking at the numbers by state, I noticed Arizona & New Mexico have much higher rates than our neighbors just north of us. But here, a huge amount of the crime involves drug smuggling from Mexico. There are small areas where that is a big business. Outside those areas, I’d bet the murder rate is more like Idaho’s...
It’s also interesting to note that this is *not* a list of all homicides, but only of homicide *offenses*, homicide crimes. “Legal” homicides, such as defending against crime, are not listed.
And this matters a lot. For example, when a murderer kills and gets away with it, it is listed as a single homicide crime, but the murderer is free to kill again. But when an *attempted* murderer is instead killed in self defense, not only is his death not part of the statistics, but neither are the homicides of people he would have killed in the future.
That is, the recidivism rate for dead criminals is zero.
As is the cost of trial and incarceration, which for a violent criminal with a 20-year sentence can run to as much as $2 million each. A dead criminal costs the price of the bullets, police and medical examiner time, and a pauper’s pine coffin and burial. A bargain.
Now if we can just do something about institutionalizing the criminally insane.
I wonder what the odds are of being murdered by a serial killer.
This is a great article which also refutes the media talking point that the murder rate in the US is high relative to other countries. It also shows a correlation between decreased murder rate and increased gun ownership.
Perhaps facts do not matter, but to some people they do.
Thanks for sharing this article.
Great article. Thanks for seeking and finding it.